As we traveled north to Washington, DC, the sun shone brightly as melting icicles clung to road signs and trees.  We went to the south hoping for slightly warmer temperatures and arrived on the coldest week of the year.  Oh well.  Our roadtrip to DC featured a stop in Richmond, VA for lunch at a […]

I am a woman geoscientist. I’ve always been outdoors-y. I’ve always been independent. I always wanted to be a scientist. I thought dinosaurs were cool when I was a kid. I decided I wanted to make a career of studying them. (It hasn’t exactly worked out that way, but that’s a different story!) Women do […]

My name is Ellen Currano. I’m the daughter of a math professor and a U Chicago alum. I hold a doctoral degree in geosciences and have been a professor for the last five years. All evidence to the contrary, I never have, and never will, consider myself an ivory tower academic, but I do take […]